Equal Education Wins £50,000 Innovate UK Grant to provide devices for Looked After Children
PRESS RELEASE: Equal Education has won a £50,000 grant from Innovate UK to provide managed devices for Looked After Children so that they can participate in online learning. With these new devices, the company aims to help close the "Digital Divide" and reduce the "Attainment Gap".
The Children in Need Review
In Help, protection, education: concluding the children in need review (2019) the government committed to take action to improve the educational outcomes of children who have needed a social worker. This February, it announced changes to the role of Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools, a development welcomed by The Children’s Society. Read more here.